From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932403AbVHMXZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932405AbVHMXZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:3524 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932403AbVHMXZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:25:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:25:19 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Henrik Brix Andersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Watchdog device node name unification Message-ID: <20050813232519.GA20256@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Henrik Brix Andersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <1123969015.13656.13.camel@sponge.fungus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1123969015.13656.13.camel@sponge.fungus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Here's a patch for unifying the watchdog device node name > to /dev/watchdog as expected by most user-space applications. > > Please CC: me on replies as I am not subscribed to LKML. Please don't. misdevice.name is a description of the device, and doesn't have any relation with the name of the device node.